How does Shakespeare present the flaws

How does Shakespeare present the flaws in Macbeth and in The Laboratory and The Last Duchess?

Shakespeare shows in Macbeth how the character of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth has big ambitions to complete and they take on pride. Likewise in the Labotory, the speaker who is the women takes on the leadership in this theme as the flaws within her character is similar to Lady Macbeth. Browning presents the duke in my last duchess to be manipulative as you are trying to figure out if he was the one to kill his wife or not.

The structure of Macbeth is a dramatic monologue as well as The Laboratory and The Last Duchess. The use of the dramatic monologue is to develop a characters persona. In Macbeth the monologue is himself imagining and seeing different signs saying he should kill Duncan. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’ This quote indicates that he is uncertain whether he is actually seeing this dagger in reality or as a vision. This symbolizes that he is power hungry, as he wants to become kings so he will do anything to succeed in this.

The Laboratory is also a dramatic monologue expressing how the speaker wants to kill three women with a potion. She then starts to have doubts whether it would work or not. ‘The colour’s too grim’ this quotes implicates that she is second guessing whether should kill these women or not. Likewise in Macbeth he was thinking twice before he killed Duncan. The speaker in the Laboratory is talking to someone else who is most likely to be the person who she is using to make the potion for her. By her creating a potion this is a sense of witchcraft, which is what is used in Macbeth as the witches, tell Macbeth about the prophecies.

My last duchess is a dramatic monologue where you explore the character of the Duke and his late wife. In the monologue you start to acknowledge the fact that perhaps the Duke himself has murdered his own wife because he was jealous. The title of the monologue is called ‘My last Duchess’ but really was she? Did he call all of his mistresses the last or just her because he knew the ‘game’ he was playing was over. He was a controlling character from what I have gathered as he suspected his wife was having an affair with another guy. ‘Spot of joy” This was referred back to her cheeks while the painter was painting her picture. The duke thought he should have been the only one to make his duchess feel this way and no one else should. So why did the wife start looking other ways? Was she scared of the Duke? In both ‘The last duchess and the Laboratory’ they are disclosing personal information to the listener who is unidentified. The are confessing their personal plots (confessing to murder) to them because they of a lower status so this means that the listeners cannot object to what the women in the laboratory is saying and the duke in the last duchess. The Duke in The last duchess is arrogant and he is abusing his power as a duke and also his high status position ’ My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name’ this indicates that his only pride is in his families name. This is related to Macbeth as Macbeth ends ups being arrogant towards the end of the book.